mercantile
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- merchantile (dated)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mercantile (not comparable)
- (economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
- 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “II. A Meeting of the Choir”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, page 139:
- No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint, for the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment the trade of which came solely by connection based on personal respect.
- (economics) Of or relating to mercantilism.
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[edit]French
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Adjective
[edit]mercantile (plural mercantiles)
Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: mercantil
Further reading
[edit]- “mercantile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]mercantile (plural mercantili)
- (relational) merchant; mercantile, commercial
- Synonym: commerciale
- marina mercantile ― merchant navy
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mercantile m (plural mercantili)
Further reading
[edit]- mercantile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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